Open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software

code_saturne is much more than a CFD code: it is an open industrial platform, proven over 25+ years and driven by an active community

Origin & Legitimacy
- Developed by EDF since 1997 for industrial CFD challenges
- Distributed as open source under the GNU GPL licence since 2007
- Decades of development and a vast base of test cases
Technical power
- Solves the Navier-Stokes equations with the finite volume method
- Incompressible or compressible, steady or unsteady flows
- Advanced models: turbulence (RANS, LES), heat transfer, multiphase, combustion, radiation, species transport
Quality & Reliability (V&V)
- Rigorous Verification and Validation process
- Robust software architecture, representative of real industrial systems
- An active community of users and developers that strengthens code quality
HPC performance
- MPI parallelisation, deployment on clusters and cloud environments
- Handles large domains with complex geometries
- Massive design, optimisation or safety simulations with no licence overhead
Open Source & Transparency
- Free: no licence cost
- Full transparency of physical and numerical models, easing audit and adaptation
- Ideal for regulatory justification studies

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